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You should spend some serious time "brushing up". The Declaration of Independence was signed July 4th, not the Constitution (which was signed September 17, 1787). That's why July 4th is Independence Day. Also, there are 27 Amendments to the Constitution.

The date the Declaration was signed is in dispute. It was adopted by the Continental Congress on 7/4/1776. From Wikipedia:

Although the wording of the Declaration was approved on July 4, the date of its signing has been disputed. Most historians have concluded that it was signed nearly a month after its adoption, on August 2, 1776, and not on July 4 as is commonly believed. The sources and interpretation of the Declaration have been the subject of much scholarly inquiry.

On July 4, 1776 the committee of the whole adopted its final version, which fact was then reported by Harrison to the Congress with a final reading of the Declaration, and the Declaration of Independence was given approval and sent to the printer for publication and later signing. Because of the abstention of the New York delegates, they were still one state short of unanimity. The highly sought after unanimity was gained the following week on July 9th, when the New York State provisional Congress voted for independence. Then the week after that, on July 19th, the Continental Congress enacted a resolution to change the title of the July 4th document to read, "The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America," and have it signed by every member of Congress.

Welfare (Food Stamps, WIC, etc...) are not entitlements. They are taxpayer funded handouts and shouldn't be called entitlements at all. Social Security and Veteran's benefits are 'Entitlements' because the people receiving them are entitled to them. They were earned and paid for by the recipients.

This is what I hate about politics the most, it turns people in snobbish egotistical self righteous dicks who allow their political beliefs, partisan attitudes, and 'us vs. them' mentality, to force them to deny reality.

Originally Posted by Navy Pride

You can't paint everone with the same brush.......It does not work tht way.

Originally Posted by Wessexman

See with you around Captain we don't even have to make arguments, as you already know everything .

Originally Posted by CriticalThought

Had you been born elsewhere or at a different time you may very well have chosen a different belief system.

Originally Posted by ernst barkmann

It a person has faith they dont need to convince another of it, and when a non believer is not interested in listening to the word of the lord, " you shake the dust from your sandels and move on"

Threatening the teen is and should be unacceptable, however I think we have to question a few things before we just accept the narrative in this story.

Who prompted the teen to ask for the debate?
What was their motive?
Do we have actual proof that this teen was threatened? Or is this simply taking the word of someone, who told someone, who was quoted in the story to make it more entertaining to the reader?
Do liberals who lately have taken the sad Allensky tactics and elevated them to platform playbook within the demo party really expect America to be this dumb and just blindly accept their narrative?

Take a look at what transpires when certain so called educators whip their impressionable students into a frenzy.

This is what I hate about politics the most, it turns people in snobbish egotistical self righteous dicks who allow their political beliefs, partisan attitudes, and 'us vs. them' mentality, to force them to deny reality.

Originally Posted by Navy Pride

You can't paint everone with the same brush.......It does not work tht way.

Originally Posted by Wessexman

See with you around Captain we don't even have to make arguments, as you already know everything .

Originally Posted by CriticalThought

Had you been born elsewhere or at a different time you may very well have chosen a different belief system.

Originally Posted by ernst barkmann

It a person has faith they dont need to convince another of it, and when a non believer is not interested in listening to the word of the lord, " you shake the dust from your sandels and move on"

You gave us three links, all three were trash earlier, you ignored proof, PROOF given that some of these so called "racist" were plants by those like yourself that want to believe the Tea Party is Racist.

I have really better things to do then prove to you something you refuse to accept.

Are there Racist in the Tea Party? A very small insignificant and shunned minority. But to you, refuse to accept this truth. You'll read some blog by a partisan hacks with axes to grind as gospel truth, accept without any context any picture claimed to be from a Tea Party as Racist. Be nice all you want Kali, I'll just be blunt.

I'll nicely ask you to quit wasting our time with your worthless pics and videos. Or can I play too?

Sure.. Keep thinking they were plants. You really buy that crap? I expect much better from you and esp. much better from Hugh.

OK. There is no racism at the Tea Party KKK Rallies and the racism you see is plants. Got It

Sure.. Keep thinking they were plants. You really buy that crap? I expect much better from you and esp. much better from Hugh.

OK. There is no racism at the Tea Party KKK Rallies and the racism you see is plants. Got It

Kali, it's OK. It's not your fault that you are ignorant on this subject, oh wait... It's not your fault that you have swallowed the lies spread by the far-left media in this country, oh wait... It's not your fault that you don't understand what racism is because you've been brainwashed, oh wait...

Equating the Tea Party as being anything remotely close to the KKK is either intellectual dishonesty or complete and total ignorance. I'd like to think it's the latter, but I'm not sure yet. Let me know when you are going to attend a Tea Party to see for yourself. You might be surprised at how the far-left MSM, MM and other George Soros funded outfits have been lying to you for quite some time now.

Welfare (Food Stamps, WIC, etc...) are not entitlements. They are taxpayer funded handouts and shouldn't be called entitlements at all. Social Security and Veteran's benefits are 'Entitlements' because the people receiving them are entitled to them. They were earned and paid for by the recipients.